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Assessing Knowledge of Retirement Behavior

Eric A. Hanushek and Nancy L. Maritato, Editors

Panel on Retirement Income Modeling

Committee on National Statistics

Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

National Research Council

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C.
1996

Suggested Citation:"FRONT MATTER." National Research Council. 1996. Assessing Knowledge of Retirement Behavior. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5367.
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Suggested Citation:"FRONT MATTER." National Research Council. 1996. Assessing Knowledge of Retirement Behavior. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5367.
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PANEL ON RETIREMENT INCOME MODELING

ERIC A. HANUSHEK (Chair),

W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy, University of Rochester

HENRY AARON,

The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.

ALAN J. AUERBACH,

Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

CHRISTOPHER BONE,

Actuarial Sciences Associates, Somerset, New Jersey

PETER DIAMOND,

Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MICHAEL HURD,

Department of Economics, State University of New York, Stony Brook

OLIVIA S. MITCHELL,

Department of Insurance and Risk Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

SAMUEL H. PRESTON,

Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania

JOHN P. RUST,

Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison

TIMOTHY M. SMEEDING,

Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University

JAMES P. SMITH,

The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California

CONSTANCE F. CITRO, Study Director

NANCY L. MARITATO, Research Associate

CANDICE S. EVANS, Project Assistant

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COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL STATISTICS 1995-1996

NORMAN M. BRADBURN (Chair),

National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago

JOHN E. ROLPH (Vice Chair),

Department of Information and Operations Management, University of Southern California

JULIE DaVANZO,

The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California

WILLIAM EDDY,

Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University

JOHN F. GEWEKE,

Department of Economics, University of Minnesota

JOEL B. GREENHOUSE,

Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University

ERIC A. HANUSHEK,

W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy, University of Rochester

NICHOLAS JEWELL,

School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

CHARLES MANSKI,

Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison

WILLIAM NORDHAUS,

Department of Economics, Yale University

JANET NORWOOD,

The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.

EDWARD B. PERRIN,

Department of Health Services, University of Washington

KEITH F. RUST,

Westat, Inc., Rockville, Maryland

FRANCISCO J. SAMANIEGO,

Division of Statistics, University of California, Davis

MIRON L. STRAF, Director

MICHELE L. CONRAD, Division Administrator

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Preface

The Panel on Retirement Income Modeling of the Committee on National Statistics was established to review the state of the art and make recommendations to inform policy making on retirement income security. The panel's work considers what data, research, and models exist and what are needed to estimate the short-run and long-run implications of current retirement-income-related policies and proposed changes to them. Support for the project was provided by the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration in the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Institute on Aging, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the Social Security Administration, and TIAA-CREF.

In order to inform its work, the panel commissioned the papers in this volume, which review the state of research on such topics as individual labor supply and savings behavior and employer behavior that is relevant to retirement income security. The papers were originally presented at a conference in September 1994; they were subsequently modified to incorporate the comments of discussants at the conference, panel members, and reviewers. The authors provide comprehensive assessments of their subject areas, and we thank them.

Our thanks go next to the discussants: Richard Burkhauser, Syracuse University; David Cutler, Harvard University; Marjorie Honig, Hunter College; Michael Hurd, State University of New York, Stony Brook; Marvin Kosters, American Enterprise Institute; Alicia Munnell, Council of Economic Advisors; Patricia Ruggles, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress; John Rust, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Dallas Salisbury, Employee Benefit Research Institute; Eugene Steuerle, The Urban Institute; Lawrence Thompson, The Urban Institute; and Joshua Wiener, The Urban Institute

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The panel also gratefully acknowledges the commitment and support of all those who worked collaboratively to organize the conference and prepare this volume. Constance Citro, the panel's study director, developed plans for the conference in collaboration with panel members. Nancy Maritato worked with the authors to shepherd their papers through revision and review and collaborated with me to draft the introduction. Agnes Gaskin facilitated the conference arrangements, and Candice Evans prepared the final manuscript.

Most important, the papers and the workshop discussion contributed significantly to the panel's work and our report, which will be published early next year.

Eric A. Hanushek, Chair

Panel on Retirement Income Modeling

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